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Ten years after debuting its 64-bit x86 chip, AMD is introducing a family of G-series processors built on the "Jaguar" architecture for the Windows Embedded 8 and Linux platforms. AMD says the series will have five models and the system-on-chip approach is more energy efficient. Gareth Halfacree writes that the processors are "a clear indication of how AMD's priorities have shifted over the last few years. Finding itself unable to compete with Intel's latest Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge products at the performance end of the market, the company is increasingly looking to HSA -- formerly known as Fusion -- for its future."

Advanced Micro Devices will use the Integrity real-time operating system from Green Hills Software with its G-Series accelerated processing units to address the market for embedded system processors. Embedded systems include products such as gaming systems, point-of-sale systems, information kiosks and set-top boxes.

Advanced Micro Devices is working with Happy Cloud, a cloud-based provider of games on demand, to offer Windows PC games on Web-connected television sets equipped with AMD's G-Series embedded microprocessors. Happy Cloud offers both streaming and progressive downloading of games.

Just weeks after the official debut of its Fusion processor technology, which was initially developed for mobile devices such as tablets and netbooks, Advanced Micro Devices is pushing out the Fusion G-Series built for embedded systems such as set-top boxes, point-of-sale kiosks and digital signs. The chipmaker says it already has vendors readying products featuring the processor.